Question

Compare and contrast the impact poverty has on rural children and urban children in the United States by focusing on enrollment levels, finances, access to technology, equity in education, and child welfare.

Answer 1

Rural & Urban poverty in US-Children
The rural children in US are affecting more from poverty when compared to their counterparts in the urban. 1970s recorded a 20% poverty rate for the children in the rural area where the urban was recorded 12%. The gap narrowed in 1970s and 1980s but it further diverged from the 1990s. The rise of child poverty in rural America was because of the rising income gap between urban and rural families.
Rural areas and poor families benefitted less from the economic boom in the late 1990s. Urban areas holding development and raise in income generation, reduced the intensity of the poverty there in the urban areas. Rural children affecting from poverty faces much from the financial level of their families, the employment opportunities, educational equality and welfare. Rural parents tend to be less educated leading them having underemployed than the urban parents. The gap in inabilities of the parents of rural children and urban children which make the difference in the opportunities and benefits the children enjoys. The higher intensity of poverty pulls back the children from better education to achieve better standard of living. Rural areas being less developed than the urban, children faces less opportunity in everything including the access of technology etc. Infrastructural limitations in the rural areas do not benefit the children to enjoy the advanced world.
The recent years have shown changes in the intensity of the children in rural suffering poverty, the limitations of their family and the place they survive do not provide enough access to things to the rural children especially those who face poverty like their urban counterpart. They really lack enjoying the facilities of technology, opportunity and education etc. like the urban children pose.